Step-By-Step Approach to Creating a Digital Story from Material Found On the Web
(taken from www.digitales.us)
Educational Goals of Digital Storytelling
Teachers can: • Create a digital story for use as a hook for a lesson; • Enhance current lesson plans with the use of a digital story within a unit; • Assign student-created stories which requires students to research a topic from a particular point of view. Students can: • Learn to use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content; • Develop communication skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives and write for an audience; • Increase their computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia including: text, still images, audio, video and web publishing.
Educational Objectives of Digital Storytelling
Although not a comprehensive list, digitial storytelling can be used to: • Appeal to the diverse learning styles of students by using Digital Storytelling as a presentation media; • Generate interest, attention and motivation for the "digital generation" kids in our classrooms; • Capitalize on the creative talents of your own students as they begin to research and tell stories of their own; • Publish student work on the Internet for viewing and critiquing by others; • Promote the accomplishment of cross-curricular academic standards and learning objectives.
THE TASK
Follow these steps carefully and don't skip any:
REMEMBER: In order to have something to say , you must choose a book from your classroom library and read it - TEACHERS! you must ask your students to bring their favourite books (elementary, beginners) to class, prepare a box in which books are going to be kept and looked after throughout the course and control that each student takes a book that is not his or hers-.
Next step would be to control their reading. For that purpose, teachers will ask students to write a brief summary, the format they prefer. Some may want to summarize the story in powerpoint.
Once teachers correct students' summaries to check they've read their books then they will give students a script template which will be useful to organize the making-up of their videos. To fill it in students must follow the following steps:
2. Create a folder on the desktop where you can store the materials you find.
3. Search for image resources for your story, including: pictures, drawings, photographs, maps, charts, etc. - Save these resources in your folder.
4. Try to locate audio resources such as music, speeches, interviews, and sound effects. - Save these resources in your folder.
5. Try to find informational content, which might come from web sites, word processed documents, or PowerPoint slides. - Save these resources in your folder.
6. Begin thinking of the purpose of your story. Are you trying to inform, convince, provoke, question?
PART TWO: Select, Import, Create
1. Select the images you want to use for your digital story.
2. Select the audio you want to use for your digital story.
3. Select the content and text you want to use for your digital story.
4. Import images into Photo Story.
5. Import audio into Photo Story.
6. Modify number of images and/or image order, if necessary.
PART THREE: Decide, Write, Record, Finalize
1. Decide on the purpose and point of view of your digital story.
2. Write a script that will be used as narration in your digital story AND provides the purpose and point of view you have chosen.
3. Use a computer microphone and record the narration of your script.
4. Import the narration into Photo Story.
5. Finalize your digital story by saving it as a Windows Media Video (.wmv) file.
PART FOUR: Demonstrate, Evaluate, Replicate
1. Show your digital story to your colleagues.
2. Gather feedback about how the story could be improved, expanded, and used in your classroom.
3. Teach a colleague how to create their own digital story.
4. Congratulate yourself for a job well done *
Since an image is worth a thousand words, here you have a video created by one of our students. Remember that you can use any video editor or versions of Movie Maker:
Step-By-Step Approach to Creating a Digital Story from Material Found On the Web
(taken from www.digitales.us)
Educational Goals of Digital Storytelling
Teachers can:• Create a digital story for use as a hook for a lesson;
• Enhance current lesson plans with the use of a digital story within a unit;
• Assign student-created stories which requires students to research a topic from a particular point of view.
Students can:
• Learn to use the Internet to research rich, deep content while analyzing and synthesizing a wide range of content;
• Develop communication skills by learning to ask questions, express opinions, construct narratives and write for an audience;
• Increase their computer skills using software that combines a variety of multimedia including: text, still images, audio, video and web publishing.
Educational Objectives of Digital Storytelling
Although not a comprehensive list, digitial storytelling can be used to:• Appeal to the diverse learning styles of students by using Digital Storytelling as a presentation media;
• Generate interest, attention and motivation for the "digital generation" kids in our classrooms;
• Capitalize on the creative talents of your own students as they begin to research and tell stories of their own;
• Publish student work on the Internet for viewing and critiquing by others;
• Promote the accomplishment of cross-curricular academic standards and learning objectives.
THE TASKFollow these steps carefully and don't skip any:
REMEMBER: In order to have something to say , you must choose a book from your classroom library and read it - TEACHERS! you must ask your students to bring their favourite books (elementary, beginners) to class, prepare a box in which books are going to be kept and looked after throughout the course and control that each student takes a book that is not his or hers-.
Next step would be to control their reading. For that purpose, teachers will ask students to write a brief summary, the format they prefer. Some may want to summarize the story in powerpoint.
Once teachers correct students' summaries to check they've read their books then they will give students a script template which will be useful to organize the making-up of their videos. To fill it in students must follow the following steps:
PART ONE: Define, Collect, Decide
1. Select a topic for your digital story.
2. Create a folder on the desktop where you can store the materials you find.
3. Search for image resources for your story, including: pictures, drawings, photographs, maps, charts, etc. - Save these resources in your folder.
4. Try to locate audio resources such as music, speeches, interviews, and sound effects. - Save these resources in your folder.
5. Try to find informational content, which might come from web sites, word processed documents, or PowerPoint slides. - Save these resources in your folder.
6. Begin thinking of the purpose of your story. Are you trying to inform, convince, provoke, question?
PART TWO: Select, Import, Create
1. Select the images you want to use for your digital story.
2. Select the audio you want to use for your digital story.
3. Select the content and text you want to use for your digital story.
4. Import images into Photo Story.
5. Import audio into Photo Story.
6. Modify number of images and/or image order, if necessary.
PART THREE: Decide, Write, Record, Finalize
1. Decide on the purpose and point of view of your digital story.
2. Write a script that will be used as narration in your digital story AND provides the purpose and point of view you have chosen.
3. Use a computer microphone and record the narration of your script.
4. Import the narration into Photo Story.
5. Finalize your digital story by saving it as a Windows Media Video (.wmv) file.
PART FOUR: Demonstrate, Evaluate, Replicate
1. Show your digital story to your colleagues.
2. Gather feedback about how the story could be improved, expanded, and used in your classroom.
3. Teach a colleague how to create their own digital story.
4. Congratulate yourself for a job well done *
Since an image is worth a thousand words, here you have a video created by one of our students. Remember that you can use any video editor or versions of Movie Maker: